Comment on Anon uses Windows
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It’s not as bad as people make out, but buying a brand new Windows machine is a pretty annoying experience.
I’m on Windows 11 and I don’t recall ever seeing a pop-up like this but it looks like a standard notification from the Microsoft Store App, which means it SHOULD be possible to suppress by turning off notifications for that app (Open Settings, go to System -> Notifications -> Microsoft Store and just set the toggle to “Off”).
Yes, that turns off ALL Notifications for the Store App, but it doesn’t really have any useful ones anyways so it’s not a big loss.
I always take these posts with a huge grain of salt. I have installed Windows 11 in two PCs so far and never seen these things happen. I don’t see no candy crush or nonsense installed save for some microsoft apps. I then proceed to delete what I don’t want and turn off tips and suggestions. After doing that it never has bothered me again…
Windex007@lemmy.world 1 month ago
now that is a well-boiled frog
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 month ago
Could well be European. EU Windows installs are significantly less bloaty than shit than US installs are.
TaTTe@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I believe this is very true. I’m from Europe and nothing in the greentext made any sense to me. Never seen a Windows install with any of the mentioned “features”.
Windex007@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Forget the “bloat”. Windows has an advertisements engine. I’m not talking about some stupid OEM bullshit bundled thing… I’m saying the operating system itself.
My OS (that I fucking paid for, no less) shouldn’t be piping me advertisements and it sure as shit shouldn’t be harvesting screenshots to train an AI model.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Then just disable suggestions with a simple checkbox in the settings.
Windows only has ads if you let it.